Brown Bear Denmother  

Merc journeyman no buffs except haste and talisman of the lynx.Me lvl 81 shaman.

Saw her running and aggroed me started fight.She hits so hard drops my mercs hp by 20-30% in a few hits.
Had to keep spamming heal to finally survive her long barrage of attacks and finally i win with no mana left.
Overall:not worth killing.

I despise this mob, being only 72, shes going to make me her whipping boy. There is no logic to her other than the 'Tracking' explained below. When you kill an animal, watch for her. She jumps out after a kill.

This thing obviously pops when you kill a grizzly cub. Just avoid the temptation.

Just some observations. This mob does not seem to agro normally. I've had her run towards me while in a number of different locations in the zone, once even while selling stuff at the fort (came running through the doors at me). She doesn't actually go on your agro table until *after* she gets close to you, but she seems to "track" you from anywhere in the zone. My theory is that if she's spawned, she will investigate any animal corpses left lying about (bears at least, perhaps wolves or others as well). She will first run to that mob's corpse and then track whoever killed it, agroing once she gets within range. The theory is based on some observations. I was killing mobs in the south part of the zone (trying to spawn poachers). I had been looting the corpses completely, but at a certain point got full and was leaving the less valuable stuff on them. At some point I saw her running towards me. I moved away, but instead of her changing course to me, she ran directly to where the corpse of the mob I'd just looted was. She paused there for a few seconds and then began running directly at me.

It's possible that as long as you clean up your mobs (ie: loot them fully) she wont come after you (unless you just happen to stumble onto her of course). The idea that she tracks rather than agros is based on another occasion in which she came running towards me and engaged (like she does), but I noticed that she was already about 70% health. If she was agroing on me, she should have summoned me from across the zone, but didn't. She only started summoning after she got into melee range with me. Yet something caused her to run across the zone to get to me. That and the observation about her running to the corpse first and then to me makes me think that the corpses are somehow related. And frankly, it makes sense. I never noticed before because I'd always been roaming around killing stuff while trying to complete other quests. So if my theory is correct, she'd already found a corpse I'd left somewhere and was tracking me. But when I was hunting just in one area, I was able to actually witness her finding the corpse and then tracking me.


This also explains why she would camp a FD monk. She's not following you because of agro. She's tracking you. The reported behavior of running away and then back might be her loosing your scent when FD, then running to the nearest corpse to regain it, then tracking you. Loosing the scent again, and repeating the process. Again, I suggest the key is to fully loot corpses if possible.

Camped at crossroads area in south end of OGH. The spot where road runs north and south, but also has a brance heading east towards zone to west karana. There is a big pointed stone sitting at these crossroads for reference. I set up there with my 77 Druid & T1 tank merc boxing 77 Enchanter with T1 cleric merc to kill spawns all around in order to get poachers to spawn for the "Poaching the Poachers" quest. Each set of repops of spawns required that I kill alot of bears, both infected and normal, as well as "opening" the diseased mobs laying around. The Brown Bear Denmother seemed to spawn each cycle that I killed alot of bears in that area. She popped at or very near that crossroads camp each time. She is on good terms with animal types like rangers, druids, and BLs...but would attack my Enchanter if in aggro range.

How fast does she respawn after killing her ? I am wondering if it is worth killing her, only to have her chasing you around the zone for the rest of the night. Sort of reminds me of the POG's in Plane of Growth.

It would appear she spawns after killing some animals, and will chase you down.
I was runnin through the zone killin stuff and turned around to see her running towards me, but I had no agro until she started attacking me.
So, to make the statement, no matter where she spawns she comes after you

She seems to aggro anyone who kills bears

She conned amiable to me (ranger)and seemed to follow me around for a while. Everytime I moved, she followed me. Anyone know what that was about?

/cons yellow to level 77. Spawned atop Wandering Soul's corpse just a minute or two after it died.

Edited, Feb 25th 2009 2:51am by Auldian

also dropped

Mother's Watchful Eye

MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM ATTUNABLE
Slot: RANGE
AC: 29
STR: +21+1 DEX: +15+1 STA: +23+1 CHA: +16+1 WIS: +15+1 INT: +4 AGI: +6 HP: +295 MANA: +290 ENDUR: +290
SV FIRE: +20 SV DISEASE: +12 SV COLD: +21 SV MAGIC: +15 SV POISON: +12
Combat Effects: +2 Spell Shield: +1% Avoidance: +1 Accuracy: +2 Stun Resist: +1% Strikethrough: +1% Attack: +18 HP Regen +2 Mana Regeneration: +3 Spell Damage: +3 Damage Shield Mitigation: +1 Heal Amount: +1
Recommended level of 75. Required level of 70.
Effect: Improved Dodge I (Worn, Casting Time: Instant)
WT: 0.9 Size: SMALL
Class: CLR PAL RNG DRU SHM BST
Race: ALL
Slot 1, Type 7 (General: Group)
Slot 2, Type 3 (General: Spell Effect)

Not snareable or rootable, and she summons.

Edited, Feb 12th 2009 10:28pm by Saries

Brown Bear Denmother

dropped:
Petrified Grizzly Eye
Magic Lore Attunable
CLR PAL RNG DRU SHM BST
Race ALL
Slot RANGE

Size SMALL
Wt 0.9
Rec 75/Req70
AC 27
HP285
MANA 280
END 280

STR 21+1
STA 23+1
INT 4
WIS 15+1
AGI 6
DEX 15+1
CHA 16+1

MAGIC 15
FIRE 20
COLD 21
DISEASE 12
POISON 12

Atk: 18
HP Regen: 2
Mana Regen: 3
Spell Shield: 1
Combat Eff: 2
Dmg Shield Mit: 1
Avoidance: 1
Accuracy: 2
Stun resist: 1
Strike Through 1
Heal Amt: 1
Spell Dmg: 3

type 7 aug slot

effect: improved dodge i (worn)


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